Christmas Wreaths
Full of spices and decorated with cranberries, white chocolate & pistachios these Christmas Wreath Biscuits are perfectly beautiful & super easy. Go bake.
I know that you can get cutters designed to cut the middle out as well as the outer edge. Maybe I need to put one on my Christmas wish list, as I don’t have one yet.Servings: 18
Ingredients
- 75 g/ ½ cup rice flour
- 200 g/ 11/2 cups plain (all purpose flour)
- 225 g/ 1 cup unsalted butter - cubed
- 40 g/ ⅓ cup icing (confectioner) sugar
- 45 g/ ¼ cup vanilla caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon mixed spice
- Finely grated zest of ½ an orange
- Finely grated zest of ½ a lemon
Toppings:
- 100 g/ ¾ cup white chocolate – chopped & melted
- 40 g/ ¼ cup pistachio nuts – finely chopped
- 40 g/ ¼ cup dried cranberries – chopped small
Instructions
- Put the flours, sugars, spice, citrus zests and butter into a bowl and rub together using your fingertips until the mixture first resembles breadcrumbs and then starts to bind together. Knead briefly and gently until the mixture forms a smooth biscuit dough
- Roll out on a lightly floured work-surface to approximately ½ cm (¼ inch) thick. Press out circles of the dough using a pastry cutter with a diameter around 7cm (2 ½ inches). R-roll the dough once and cut out any extra biscuits that you can
- Using a much smaller cutter* of around 2cm (¾ inch) in diameter, cut out the middle of the biscuits, then lay the biscuits on baking sheets and chill for 30 minutes before baking. Meanwhile preheat the oven to 140°C/ 275°F/ GM 1
- Bake the biscuits for 25-30 minutes until very lightly golden - you are not looking for these biscuits to brown significantly – they are cooked long and low to get a nice crunch without a suntan
- Once baked, allow to cool for a couple of minutes on the baking sheet then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely
- Drizzle the melted white chocolate over the cooled biscuits, zig-zagging as you go. Finally, sprinkle the cranberries and nuts over the top. Once set, you may need to carefully poke any chocolate/ cranberries & nuts through the middle to reveal the whole.